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Thursday, 22 May 2014

Click on the image to get a real feel of just how many miles they have done and in just 21 days, with just 4 to go the trip is nearly over.

The zig zag at the lower end of South Africa was due to a test drive from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth and back to Cape Town to test the new engine rebuild we ordered.

That went well and they have now gone from the South Atlantic Ocean, up to Victoria Falls, Etosha Pan and then back to the South Atlantic coast today.

Easy?

I bet not!

Roy

Check this link to view the car before the new owners took the car over.

http://ckdboats.blogspot.com/2014/05/era-rally-update.html

A reader of my blog has sent a comment by email.

Comment from Alex Notman (Notty)

Having been to most of those countries, up to the Vic. Falls,
Wankie and the Matopas in the 60's, towing a caravan on strip roads when Ian
Smith ruled then as far north as Gross Barmen in South West Africa as Namibia
was then called, I can appreciate the trip being done in a classic Jaguar more
suitable to modern highways than bundu bashing?

It's a hell of a trip for such a car and that is a tribute to
the original builders but more so to the owners who cared for and prepared the
car in its latter years and that includes Roy, Clive and the engine/car
re-building companies they selected. It is a shame that the oil pump failure let
it down for part of the journey but that could happen on even a new
car.

Its also a tribute to the new owners who could just as easily
have selected a Range Rover a Defender or Land Cruiser all of which would have
been more suitable for such a trip, though the Defender would not have offered
the luxury of the Jag. So, well done chaps.

Wednesday, 21 May 2014

Having sent a picture of a Hillman Imp in a museum to a friend, his comment was that its nice to see that the car has been recognised.

It gets better than that really as the first car made to the Hillman Imp design is still in existance and also in a museum.

Above is a later Hillman Imp deluxe

The original Mk1 and first Imp built in the Glasgow Motor Museum. I am assuming we are discounting pre production cars? many of which were damaged in testing and often by the Rootes Car Co, apprentices!

The original car, I read last year that the man who spray painted this car was still alive, given that the car was fifty years old last year I would like to think he still is with us now?

Tuesday, 20 May 2014

We are back on track with this South African design, I spoke to Dave Hartwanger the designer just yesterday and he tells me that the original plans and builders guide book has been expanded from the original 20 pages to a whopping 43 pages!

Dave can offer the plans at only R500 plus the kit can be bought from CKD Boats cc with a local boat builder who will assemble and finish the kit for you.

Monday, 19 May 2014

This subject has just cropped up again, you can of course use whatever you want but given the choice I will stay with the phenolic glue each and every time.Machine works on our spindle with purpose made cutters to make the Birdsmouth section correctly.

Some of the large range of specialist cutters we have.

Our German made spindle, its quite clever as it can run on 220v and 360v, the spindle can be raised or lowered and I think we can even change its direction?

RoyThis is what the well known wood/epoxy boat designer thinks on the subject.

With regard to which glue to use, many builders have moved over to epoxy because they think that it is the ultimate in glues. That is not the case, however. Epoxy works well most of the time but there are applications that phenolic or resorcinol glues are a better choice. I have a few words about glue selection on my website athttp://dixdesign.com/FAQwood.htm. Additional to that info, epoxy can lose its grip on wood that is saturated with water. In contrast, the bond of resorcinol increases if the wood becomes wet. Resorcinol is my choice whenever practical for bonding important items and I prefer to keep epoxy for coatings and items that are not unlikely to become wet.

Roys Hillman Imp Years

Started some years back,the first blog was intended to carry the CNC ply and epoxy boat kits only.Then other items slipped in,it soon became a potted history of Roys past life,some of it anyway.

There have been many car projects in the past and maybe in the future. So recently a brand new blog was started to open a few doors to Roys history with the cars he has known.

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Superform bending ply applications

We originally thought the boat trade would be our main target area but we now find the use has spread across the board and many shop and office fitters use it,its used on a large scale by furniture manufacturers too,

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Roy Mc Bride

working class trades person,broom sweeper and potato picker,apprentice Joiner,master carpenter,emigrant,shopfitter,interior designer,disco dj,race car builder and driver,engine rebuild specialist,boat designer and builder,traveled to twenty nine countries,married to a surfing families daughter,two great children, three grand children,two boys and one girl,Ben,Luke and Holly,sailed the South Atlantic three times,twice on my own yachts,founded a timber retail store,importer and exporter,cnc cut boat and car kit maker,working with the Hillman Imp and derivitives for 47 years,more or less in that order.yes,still crazy after all these years!